Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-08-13
Creamey in McMinnville.

JEFFERSON, OHIO, Aug. 3, 1887.
EDITOR STANDARD.-I note with
pleasure the call made in the
last issue of the STANDARD,
July 80, for the citizens of your place
to attend a Creamery meeting at w.
A. Johnson's office. This is a very
important move in the right direc-
ton. Nature has given to your peo-
pie every needed element for success
in the dairy business. You have a
mild climate, fair pasture land, splen-
did water and cool nights, in fact
every favorable condition for the
manufacture of good, wholesome
butter. There is no trouble whatever
to make good, nice, yellow, pure,
sweet butter in Warren county, Ten
nessee, and no one thing would give
northern people a more favorable i'm
preston of the south when making
their first visiting than to set before
them good, sweet, pure butter. The
hotels that really desire an increase
of population to help develop the
south should get good butter for their
tables if they have to make it them
selves.
We have an excellent Creamery in
this place, of which | have the honor
of management, and it is the best one
1 ever saw, and 1 am travelling con-
tinually as Assistant Dairy Com
missioner, among the Cheese Facto-
ries and Creameries. Our butter to-
day sells at retail for 80 cents per
pound in Cleveland, Ohio. We ship
over 800 pounds every day by eX-
press, to one firm in that city. 1t
goes in three hours from the factory
to the retail house. You have just
as good a chance in McMinnville to
place your butter from a Creamery,
in Nashville or Chattanooga. Let
me advise you to be very careful and
not let some patent creamery shark
man, who has machinery to sell, get
away with you before you get the
business started. Hundreds of them
have done this in Ohio, and today
the idle creameries and money lost in
them is a sad thing for the victims.
You cannot probably adopt but one
plan for successful creamery work in
the south, that is deep setting OF
milk in cold spring water. 1t is not
practical for your people to think Of
cooling milk with ice, it is beyond
your reach, but we have it plenty
here. Cheap tin cans, s inches in di-
ameter, 20 inches deepest only 45cts
a piece, will give youa good quality o.
cream. These pals have covers tC
them. Every farmer can buy these
cans and also provide a water box to
set them in where good cool spring
or well water surrounds them all the
time, and just as deep as the can will
rest in and not float around with
the milk in them. The best can fol
water setting is the Fairlamb can
but it is a patent can, and costs two
dollars a piece and holds % quarts o
milk, or the average of four gOoC
COWS at each milking here in Ohio
, If you adopt this system at all you
must compel every patron of thu
Creamery to buy these cans or elsC
the good advantages of them are al
lost.
A good deep cold cellar will answe.
in McMinnville for storage room
and if the water is 60 degrees or cold
er it will cool the e and you
butter maker can ripen it properly
for the churn. If ice is not too eX
i. pensive there you had best have tina
: to the creamery. We shall use full,
GO tons of ice in our creamery thi
: season, but we are having the hotties
weather | ever saw in Ohio for 81
long a time. Since the last week o
: June mercury has been above Y
degrees every day and from that t.
105. The drouth has been of so Ions
continuance our crops have ripenet
i~mmaturely, and we as farmers hav'
2 suffered great loss. So universal hai
, this been the case in the north tina
r dairy products are advancing rapid,
in price. The bogus goods are alsI
D.. fast disappearing from our markets
being shipped to the south. Mem
, phis, Chattanooga and Nashville ar,
three as good markets as Il bogut
, butter mills of Ohio a find. Ii
/ connection with Il creamery, you
farmers must learn to utilize tn,